TB screening program

Public health A program in which employees and residents in a facility are periodically given tuberculin skin tests to identify active TB. See Tuberculosis.

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The sample was collected proportionally using quota sampling technique based on the number of DM type II patients participating in pulmonary TB screening program from January to March 2016 in 11 PHCs.

Factors Associated with Participation in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Screening Using Chest X-Ray among Diabetes Mellitus Type II Patients in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

This is a retrospective epidemiological cohort study of a prospective TB screening program launched in 2008.

Low Prevalence of Active Tuberculosis among High-Risk Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Sweden: A Retrospective Epidemiological Cohort Study Using and Evaluating TST as Screening Method

No routine TB screening program had been conducted for patients at the dialysis center.

Tuberculosis transmission in a renal dialysis center--Nevada, 2003

The mandatory TB screening program for residents in shelters and residential substance treatment programs may have led some homeless persons to live in other settings or to leave Denver; the latter reason led to the diagnosis of subsequent cases in other jurisdictions.

Skin-test screening and tuberculosis transmission among the homeless (1). (Tuberculosis Genotyping Network)

Managing a modern overseas TB screening program for migration and refugee resettlements results in development of laboratory and treatment capacity.

Immigrant Arrival and Tuberculosis among Large Immigrant--and Refugee-Receiving Countries, 2005-2009

The adalimumab clinical trials, which were performed primarily in Europe, found that TB screening programs reduced TB by 85%.